News Year 1

Welcome back! What a lovely week to start the term and my time at Atwood. 

Croydon is London’s Borough of Culture this year. To celebrate this our wonderful choir were invited to take part in the CR Talent Show, where many young people from Croydon’s schools were showcasing the musical opportunities available for them.

This week we took part in our annual sports day event!

Year 1 Visit the British Wildlife Centre– report by Miss Daulton and Mr Spriggs British wildlife centre ‘Year 1 had an amazing trip to the British Wildlife Centre last Monday.

This week at Ecclesbourne, we have been celebrating the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush.

All of the children in our nursery and reception classes had wonderful sports days. 

As a result of our collaboration with the P.I.G. charity and their allotment project, some of our Year 6 pupils were lucky enough to go and visit Mrs Burney’s Bees in Frylands Wood this week. 

All of the children in year one and year two had great fun on their individual sports days, even though the sun failed to arrive!   

The sun came out for our walk, ride or scoot to school week. 

On this beautiful sunny Friday afternoon, it was a pleasure to see so many of our pupils making the most of the weather to enjoy learning outdoors in the sunshine.

We have been learning about Africa and it’s culture this term.

Our Year 1 classes had a great day on Monday at the Horniman museum.

Our children had a fantastic day at the Horniman Museum.

Year 1 had the lucky opportunity to visit The Horniman Museum in Forest Hill.

Oh what fun we had in our reception class assemblies this week, sharing some of our learning and retelling some of the stories that we have been looking at in class!